Search articles

Results for: "Martin Luther King Jr. Community Hospital" Clear search

825 articles
The Columbia building in Los Angeles - an old beige building with columnsProfiles In NursingMary Marvin Wayland (?-1946), Pioneer of Evidence-Based Nursing PracticeStandards of care once depended on where a nurse worked...a nurse, and teaching the patient to get well and keep well.” ELIZABETH HANINK, RN, BSN, PHN, is a Working Nurse staff writer with extensive hospital and community-based nursing experience....
Registered Nurse Lyrose Ortiz stands smiling in blue scrubs, arms resting on a counter.My SpecialtyIntensive Care Unit, Lyrose Ortiz, MLK Community HospitalHelping critical care nurses reach their full potential...I began to consider climbing the clinical ladder. So, when Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Hospital (MLKCH) first opened in 2015, I took a leap of faith and applied for...
A patient sits upright in a hospital bed talking to a nurse in scrubs at the bedside. The nurse is using a tabletFeatureWired Hospitals: Methodist Hospital of Southern California and Gamification SystemsAn innovative way to collect patient feedback and award nurses for their efforts...California rolled out Wambi last year to better engage and reward hospital staff for their hard work. “The results have been remarkable,” says Darlene Burge, RCP, the hospital’s director for...
Different polaroid photos sit on top of each other depicting nurses in different uniforms, shows, and capsFeatureNursing Uniforms Through HistoryToday’s scrubs are a long way from the starched gowns and white caps of earlier eras...then, you could recognize nurses by something other than their ID badges. ELIZABETH HANINK, RN, BSN, PHN, is a Working Nurse staff writer with extensive hospital and community-based nursing experience....
Nursing Book ClubThe Good Nurse: A True Story of Medicine, Madness and Murder by Charles GraeberA horrifying tale of a nurse turned serial killer, which Stephen King called the best book of the year...remembered seeing this story in the news years ago and was looking forward to clarification of several points. The case was almost too shocking to believe: Cullen, who was a...

Get the Friday Newsletter — RN advice, news and job postings.

Nursing Book ClubFirst Year Nurse: Wisdom, Warnings and What I Wish I had Known My First 100 Days on the Job by Barbara Arnoldussen, RN, MBAHelpful Advice for the New Nurse...Patient/nurse ratios back then would probably be illegal now. We often rotated all three shifts each week, working three weekends out of every four. Today, 40 years later, I have...
The Medical-Surgical Nursing textbook cover on the left, and a photo of Lillian Bruner smiling on the rightProfiles In NursingLillian Brunner (1918-2016), Author of the “Brunner Bible” TextbookNursing students remember their Brunner Bible...of their successful career in nursing. Students were always my prime interest.” ELIZABETH HANINK, RN, BSN, PHN, is a Working Nurse staff writer with extensive hospital and community-based nursing experience....
Many nurses and doctors surround a simulation where someone is receiving emergency treatment. Many people are in different roles, like one person is giving CPRFeatureWired Hospitals: UCLA Medical Center and High-Fidelity ManikinsLights! Camera! Action! Septic Shock?...is organic. It reflects what happened in that simulated experience.” While manikins are good for teaching technical skills, also working with live “patients” helps to remind nurses that at the...
A nurse is smiling across a table that has a tablet laying on itFeatureSeven Habits of Highly Effective NursesTake time to reflect on your career and be influenced and inspired by others...example, Keith branded himself as a LinkedIn and networking expert, enabling him to obtain coaching, writing and speaking work. 6. Be a Mentor and Have a Mentee. Most successful nurses...
Groups of people in a concentration camp are behind barbed wire fencing and wearing striped uniformsProfiles In NursingMaria Stromberger (1898–1957) – Austrian Nurse Who Risked Her Life to Aid Auschwitz PrisonersShe risked her life to ease suffering, then after the war testified against the Nazi guards...article about her in the February 2006 issue of Nursing History Review. ELIZABETH HANINK, RN, BSN, PHN, is a Working Nurse staff writer with extensive hospital and community-based nursing experience....